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The Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, seeks to fill a W-3 Professorship in Semantics at the Institute for Language and Information of the Philosophical Faculty.

The successful candidate will cover the area of linguistic semantics, including formal semantics, cognitive semantics and lexical semantics, in both teaching and research; in addition, it is expected that he/she will be able to teach pragmatics. The position involves participation in instruction for the Bachelor and Masters degree programs as well as in a planned international Ph.D. program. Experience in obtaining external funding is highly desirable. It is expected that the successful candidate will assume a leading roll in the planned DFG Cooperative Research Center SFB 800, which is planned to follow the current DFG Research Group FOR 600 'Functional concepts and frames'.

Formal requirements: Habilitation or equivalent scientific accomplishments, following §46 of the Northrhine-Westfalia University statute.

The Heinrich-Heine-Universität is an equal opportunity employer and therefore specifically encourages applications from qualified women. Handycapped applicants will be given preference in case of equal qualifications. Applications from international candidates are welcome; the appointed candidate will be required to eventually teach in German.

Applications with CV, including publications, presentations and courses taught, and a statement of research interests, should be sent to the address given below, with the reference D3.1-36/2008. Please, do not submit originals.